{"id":13297,"date":"2016-07-27T10:26:19","date_gmt":"2016-07-27T14:26:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=13297"},"modified":"2016-07-27T10:26:19","modified_gmt":"2016-07-27T14:26:19","slug":"full-retard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=13297","title":{"rendered":"Full retard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.democrats.org\" target=\"_blank\">DNC<\/a> has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/convention-shows-how-democrats-have-learned-to-love-gun-control\/2016\/07\/26\/f7401162-51cf-11e6-bbf5-957ad17b4385_story.html\" target=\"_blank\">gone full retard<\/a> with gun control at their convention.<\/p>\n<p>From a political standpoint we know the issue isn&#8217;t going to motivate voter turnout.\u00a0 Why do it then?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;&#8230; \u201cThis is about conviction more than calculation,\u201d said strategist <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/PaulBegala\" target=\"_blank\">Paul Begala<\/a>, who advises a pro-Clinton super PAC. \u201cThis is just one of those things that has moved <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hillaryclinton.com\" target=\"_blank\">Hillary\u2019s<\/a> heart. You could see on the campaign trail how this was affecting her.\u201d &#8230;&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Maybe it really is.\u00a0 However, Hillary is nothing if not calculating.\u00a0 There has to be another reason.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;&#8230; The Clinton team points to data suggesting that women in suburban parts of battleground states such as North Carolina, Ohio and Virginia can be persuaded to back Clinton because of her stance on guns &#8230;&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Ok.\u00a0 I&#8217;ll accept this, plus <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.wsj.com\/washwire\/2016\/07\/24\/bloomberg0724\/\" target=\"_blank\">a possible cash infusion<\/a> from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mikebloomberg.com\" target=\"_blank\">Mike Bloomberg<\/a>.<\/p>\n<ul class=\"ssb_list_wrapper\"><li class=\"fb2\" style=\"width:135px\"><iframe src=\"\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.gunpoliticsny.com%2F%3Fp%3D13297&amp;layout=button_count&amp;action=like&amp;show_faces=false&amp;share=true&amp;width=135&amp;height=21&amp;appId=307091639398582\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none; overflow:hidden;  width:150px; height:21px;\" allowTransparency=\"true\"><\/iframe><\/li><li class=\"twtr\" style=\"width:90px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-url=\"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=13297\">&nbsp;<\/a><script>!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0],p=\/^http:\/.test(d.location)?'http':'https';if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=p+':\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js';fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document, 'script', 'twitter-wjs');<\/script><\/li><li class=\"gplus\" style=\"width:68px\"><div class=\"g-plusone\" data-size=\"medium\" data-href=\"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=13297\"><\/div><\/li><li class=\"ssb_linkedin\" style=\"width:64px\"><script src=\"\/\/platform.linkedin.com\/in.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\">lang: en_US<\/script><script type=\"IN\/Share\" data-url=\"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=13297\" data-counter=\"right\"><\/script><\/li><\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The DNC has gone full retard with gun control at their convention. From a political standpoint we know the issue isn&#8217;t going to motivate voter turnout.\u00a0 Why do it then? &#8220;&#8230; \u201cThis is about conviction more than calculation,\u201d said strategist Paul Begala, who advises a pro-Clinton super PAC. \u201cThis is just one of those things [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<ul class=\"ssb_list_wrapper\"><li class=\"fb2\" style=\"width:135px\"><iframe src=\"\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.gunpoliticsny.com%2F%3Fp%3D13297&amp;layout=button_count&amp;action=like&amp;show_faces=false&amp;share=true&amp;width=135&amp;height=21&amp;appId=307091639398582\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none; overflow:hidden;  width:150px; height:21px;\" allowTransparency=\"true\"><\/iframe><\/li><li class=\"twtr\" style=\"width:90px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-url=\"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=13297\">&nbsp;<\/a><script>!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0],p=\/^http:\/.test(d.location)?'http':'https';if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=p+':\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js';fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document, 'script', 'twitter-wjs');<\/script><\/li><li class=\"gplus\" style=\"width:68px\"><div class=\"g-plusone\" data-size=\"medium\" data-href=\"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=13297\"><\/div><\/li><li class=\"ssb_linkedin\" style=\"width:64px\"><script src=\"\/\/platform.linkedin.com\/in.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\">lang: en_US<\/script><script type=\"IN\/Share\" data-url=\"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=13297\" data-counter=\"right\"><\/script><\/li><\/ul>","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elections-2016","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13297"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13297\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13302,"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13297\/revisions\/13302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}